Be Here Now - Oasis

When your first album was perhaps the album of the 90's, your second album gave it a good run for it's money you end up having to produce an album in the same league for your third album. That unfortunately didn't happen with "Be Here Now". Noel Gallagher called it the album written by "two gob shites on Charlie" and in places it sounds like it! Expectation would lead to the critics and the fan base demanding another album stuffed full of Wonderwalls, Rock and Roll Stars and Champagne Supernova's unfortunately "Be Here Now" failed to live up to the hype and was written off as dirge, mediocre at best and dire in some quarters. On first ...

Eh, such nice boys, the Gallaghers, good steadfast Manchester stock with their parka jackets and National Health specs - good t'their Mum and everything... Apparently they had some sort of band, called Oasis or some such malarkey and they got paid for making records, they did. They had a couple in the charts, so they did - heard they were called Definitely Mebbe and Morning Glory, then they went away for a while on a bit of a holiday and when they came back, they made another album, what t'kids of today call 'long awaited' it were, but then something very funny happened - everyone hated the buggers and din't buy the record - fair knocked ...

Now Be Here Now is an album that was hammered by the critics, and since he has been clean from drugs, Noel Gallagher has certainly been critical of this album. I don't blame him, because he's the songwriter of Britain's most important guitar band and you've got to have high standards, but overall, Be Here Now is definetley listenable and has a few high points. If this was made by another, lesser known band i'm sure it would have been critically acclaimed. This is a unique album as far as Oasis' discography goes, because it's the album which was entirely written and recorded in a haze of drugs and drink. You can definetley tell this by ...